AWS REGION

• Amazon Regions
• AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

• export AWS_REGION=us-east-1
• export AWS_REGION=eu-central-1

• REGION=$(curl http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/placement/region)

Related

• ~/.aws/config
• aws configure get region
• aws ec2 describe-regions --query "Regions[].{Name:RegionName}" --output text
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
• aws sts get-caller-identity
• You must specify a region. You can also configure your region by running "aws configure".

See also

• aws configure [ list-profiles | sso | sso-session | set ], ~/.aws/config, .aws/credentials,mfa_serial, AWS cli environmental variables: AWS_PROFILE, AWS_REGION, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, AWS_ROLE_SESSION_NAME, .aws/, AWS functions, --profile, viawsconfig, viawscredentials
• AWS CLI, aws [ configure | iam | ec2 | ecs | eks | s3 | rds | sts | cloudwatch | cloudformation | cloudfront | eventbridge | lambda ], aws configure list, .aws/credentials, .aws/config, ~/.aws/cli/alias, --output [ table | json | text | XXX ], Aws cli environmental variables: AWS_PROFILE, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION, AWS_REGION, AWS_CLI_AUTO_PROMPT, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, aws list all, auto-prompt, --version, whoamiaws, --filters, --help